I believe that government seizure/examination of cloud data is even a bigger threat than hacking. With a court order or -- as we have seen in the past few years -- even without a court order, a trustworthy cloud operator could be forced to turn over our data. The article a few days ago about foreign governments being reluctant to sign onto cloud computing with an American company because of the potential for snooping into their data illustrates the point even further.
If anything, this article bolsters the argument that attaching a GPS tracking device to someone's car should require a warrant. Why on earth do they need a GPS when the tags are likely already in a database somewhere?
I wish TFA or the people who post articles about pending legislation would include the @#%^ bill number! It looks like this one is H.J.RES.37, in case any of you feel like writing your senator. (It would be delightful if we could slashdot Congress.)
I'll second that. It's bad odds for the majority of the population who don't contract prostate cancer, but for those of us who have had it and have caught it early due to the PSA, it's a good deal. I've had my winning lottery ticket, thank you!
I saw an ad for Siri on television the other day, in which someone asked it where to find a locksmith and was rewarded with an answer. I tried asking Google Maps on my Blackberry to find me a locksmith using the voice feature, and the results were just fine. If Siri is somehow more special, they need to show it.
TFA also errs in calling Harold Hamm the discoverer of the Bakken oil formation. Since he was born in 1945, he would have been about 8 years old when the formation was first described.
No. For starters, there's the law passed in the 1990s (or before) mandating that telcos provide wiretapping capability for cell phones. But I'm really disgusted by icebraining's revelation that it's technically possible for anyone else with a Blackberry to sniff my phone's communications. (At least they would die of boredom if they did!)
People make too much of the fact that empty containers are transported from China to the US, because of the difference in trade volumes
I thought it was the US that exported empty containers to China, not the other way around. In fact, we seem to be doing such a fabulous job of it that we could solve the trade deficit if we could just figure out how to charge them more for the empty containers!
"Copper will continue to improve, which happens. There have been many technologies that had been predicted dead 20 years ago that are still making good progress. We'll see," Perlmutter said.
Aren't optical signals processed via devices connected with copper wires at the end of the day?
If business owners are on the hook for the behavior of their employees, they should get together and get this law repealed. If enough do, it sounds like a slam-dunk to me. The reason why it hasn't already been done is that probably too many business owners don't know that they're on the hook.
That's certainly how it would be resolved in the U.S.A.
It will be interesting to see whether the codes are used. They're intended to provide useful data granularity, but even the current codes are underused. The psychologists I have worked with all used a diagnosis of something like "non-specific mood disorder" to protect patient privacy rather than giving the insurance company a more specific code with details that might possibly leak back to the patient's boss in some way.
I remember this very thing. When I complained to Verizon, their reply could be summarized as "Tough cookies!" When I got my new phone, all the Verizon stuff went into a folder labeled "VZ crapware", and I installed the Google apps instead.
Verizon is remarkable for their ability to annoy me just shy of the point where I will change carriers.
Assuming that the mug-shot disappears from florida.arrests.org, does it disappear from the public records?
If not, what stops another site to do the same?
Nothing, as far as I can tell. I just searched for "my" mug shot, and I got seven or eight different web sites on the first page. I was interested to see that all of them watermarked the photos with their name.
The ingenuity of scumbags never fails to amaze me.
Great way to ruin a compressor unless it's been rigged to run that way (hot gas bypass and other stuff). Is there a reason not to use a properly engineered economizer?
I have absolutely no idea of what sits on our roof. All I know is that the thermostat can automatically shift between AC and heat, and that the only time I've ever seen the heat kick in was when someone raised the setting by about four degrees.
On another subject, did you ever work for U.S. Dept. of Labor?
The suite I work in has never needed to run the heat. Even in the winter, when it's been 10 F outside, the air conditioning has to kick in every now and again.
Have you heard about any of the evidence that modern humans existed as much as 2 million years longer than Darwinian evolutionists say is possible?
I hadn't heard that one and would love to see a source. But I'll also point out that if modern humans existed 2 million years, that's several orders of magnitude longer than the fundamental Christian viewpoint that the earth is under 6,000 years old.
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I believe that government seizure/examination of cloud data is even a bigger threat than hacking. With a court order or -- as we have seen in the past few years -- even without a court order, a trustworthy cloud operator could be forced to turn over our data. The article a few days ago about foreign governments being reluctant to sign onto cloud computing with an American company because of the potential for snooping into their data illustrates the point even further.
I just hope they banned "LOL".
If anything, this article bolsters the argument that attaching a GPS tracking device to someone's car should require a warrant. Why on earth do they need a GPS when the tags are likely already in a database somewhere?
I wish TFA or the people who post articles about pending legislation would include the @#%^ bill number! It looks like this one is H.J.RES.37, in case any of you feel like writing your senator. (It would be delightful if we could slashdot Congress.)
I'll second that. It's bad odds for the majority of the population who don't contract prostate cancer, but for those of us who have had it and have caught it early due to the PSA, it's a good deal. I've had my winning lottery ticket, thank you!
Ditto.
I saw an ad for Siri on television the other day, in which someone asked it where to find a locksmith and was rewarded with an answer. I tried asking Google Maps on my Blackberry to find me a locksmith using the voice feature, and the results were just fine. If Siri is somehow more special, they need to show it.
I'll stick to my track bike, thank you, which has a single, cable-operated brake that I use for emergency stops two or three times a year.
TFA also errs in calling Harold Hamm the discoverer of the Bakken oil formation. Since he was born in 1945, he would have been about 8 years old when the formation was first described.
No. For starters, there's the law passed in the 1990s (or before) mandating that telcos provide wiretapping capability for cell phones. But I'm really disgusted by icebraining's revelation that it's technically possible for anyone else with a Blackberry to sniff my phone's communications. (At least they would die of boredom if they did!)
Sheez! I didn't know that. They might as well use ROT-13!
I've always suspected that my supposedly secure Blackberry has some kind of NSA or FBI back door, and this only serves to confirm my suspicion.
I was thinking pretty much the same thing. If I really, definitely need a microwave, there's always one at 7-Eleven.
People make too much of the fact that empty containers are transported from China to the US, because of the difference in trade volumes
I thought it was the US that exported empty containers to China, not the other way around. In fact, we seem to be doing such a fabulous job of it that we could solve the trade deficit if we could just figure out how to charge them more for the empty containers!
With the U.S. Postal service planning to increase delivery time to save costs, that could gum up things for Netflix pretty badly.
TFA reads like an Onion article:
"Copper will continue to improve, which happens. There have been many technologies that had been predicted dead 20 years ago that are still making good progress. We'll see," Perlmutter said.
Aren't optical signals processed via devices connected with copper wires at the end of the day?
Is to get the law repealed.
If business owners are on the hook for the behavior of their employees, they should get together and get this law repealed. If enough do, it sounds like a slam-dunk to me. The reason why it hasn't already been done is that probably too many business owners don't know that they're on the hook.
That's certainly how it would be resolved in the U.S.A.
It will be interesting to see whether the codes are used. They're intended to provide useful data granularity, but even the current codes are underused. The psychologists I have worked with all used a diagnosis of something like "non-specific mood disorder" to protect patient privacy rather than giving the insurance company a more specific code with details that might possibly leak back to the patient's boss in some way.
I'm not sure why you were modded flamebait. Your comment seems pretty insightful to me.
I remember this very thing. When I complained to Verizon, their reply could be summarized as "Tough cookies!" When I got my new phone, all the Verizon stuff went into a folder labeled "VZ crapware", and I installed the Google apps instead.
Verizon is remarkable for their ability to annoy me just shy of the point where I will change carriers.
Assuming that the mug-shot disappears from florida.arrests.org, does it disappear from the public records? If not, what stops another site to do the same?
Nothing, as far as I can tell. I just searched for "my" mug shot, and I got seven or eight different web sites on the first page. I was interested to see that all of them watermarked the photos with their name.
The ingenuity of scumbags never fails to amaze me.
I'd mod you +1 (Funny,Sick) if I had any mod points.
Great way to ruin a compressor unless it's been rigged to run that way (hot gas bypass and other stuff). Is there a reason not to use a properly engineered economizer?
I have absolutely no idea of what sits on our roof. All I know is that the thermostat can automatically shift between AC and heat, and that the only time I've ever seen the heat kick in was when someone raised the setting by about four degrees.
On another subject, did you ever work for U.S. Dept. of Labor?
The suite I work in has never needed to run the heat. Even in the winter, when it's been 10 F outside, the air conditioning has to kick in every now and again.
Have you heard about any of the evidence that modern humans existed as much as 2 million years longer than Darwinian evolutionists say is possible?
I hadn't heard that one and would love to see a source. But I'll also point out that if modern humans existed 2 million years, that's several orders of magnitude longer than the fundamental Christian viewpoint that the earth is under 6,000 years old.